Got it on all counts. Can you explain a bit more about polarization, linear polarization, and what RHCP and LHCP is? I’m pretty new to this and don’t want to fry my hardware.

Mine failed that way, yeah. Though I think it was user error after trying to repair a mouse that wasn’t designed to be serviced officially. All the rubber wore off the wing, so I had to disassemble and replace it with a generic part. The left and right clicks are a bit spongy now, and middle click only intermittently works now, but the mouse is grippy again. I wish more mice were actually repairable.

It’s annoying to have mice that break down and need to be repurchased instead of a few replacement parts. 90% of the mouse was fine.

You will drive and you will like it! Sounds like it basically kills off biking and scooters in its entirety.

Legislation and not understanding how the technology works; name a more iconic duo.

Limit it based off speed, not off “watts” lol. You can run a motor at however many watts you want; the motor controller does that. It’s like tweaking the sear on an AUG.

The problem is parents buying 14 year olds emotos that can easily do 50+ mph and weigh a lot.

Getting rid of the three class system was a galaxy brain move, lol.

Have fun with emotos on shared use trails, instead of gentle class I-3 bikes doing 15.

I’d take my chances if I was 100% boned in a failing shuttle or space station. But yes, that would be a bleak re-entry.

I used to be hard-core into cars. I loved driving. Traffic, staggeringly bad insurance, and idiotic driving have largely soured me on driving. Yes, I will always have a car so I can get out to the great outdoors, but I have largely stopped driving in urban environments. The bike, bus, and train are faster, cheaper, or straight up easier than fighting an hour+ through traffic to go to a fun venue nine miles away.

Nowadays, I vote gleefully for everything that improves mass transit, bike infrastructure, and third places. There’s an incredible knock-on effect with traffic reduction. The more bus rapid transit lanes, the more comprehensive the rail network, and the larger and safer the bike lanes become, the faster it is to get around the city- even if one or more options is out of commission due to highway construction or tunnel repairs. A decade ago, I sat in gridlock traffic for three hours to go two city blocks. These days, I can get across town on bike in 26 minutes. Traffic is down- it only takes about an hour to cross the city.

And the wholesale destruction of USAID and PEPFAR means people are simultaneously starving to death in chunks of the world, not getting vaccines, and also not getting HIV prevention meds, which means long term, HIV infection is going to increase worldwide over time. That is going to be a massive, silent genocide that will be orders of magnitude worse, but largely undocumented.

That was a serious, serious fuckup on voters parts. Not to mention massive cuts to everyday things like critical medical R&D, science R&D, disaster preparedness, NASA, department of education, PBS and Corp for public broadcasting, department of health, FDA + food safety programs, and many other programs that people take for granted without thinking (housing grants for home buying, federal student loans, food stamps, weather prediction for natural disasters, Medicare/ACA/Medicaid, etc)

His cuts to the IRS are going to result in less money for shit like bridges, roads, and electrical grids too.

3 more years

If he doesn’t erode the government intuitions critical to elections

Yep, I’m not a big caver, but my friend is into it, and showed us beautiful crystal caverns that are in the process of getting gated because of people wandering in (and spraypainting the crystals 400+ feet down). It was a fun and reasonably safe experience. Just sad that other people feel the need to desecrate the natural world. These places take hundreds of thousands of years to form. Don’t destroy the overnight.

They do, but only because most platforms suck ass. Logging into Origin or Microsoft stores is miserable, and social integration is rare, or broken AF. If everything was cross platform, cross play, and universal social profiles and security, I’m fine with multiple platforms.

I savescum because there are too many games where not doing something perfectly means you go from one difficult to get ending to the ending that 80% of people will get.

BG3 is unfortunately a really great example of this, where one roll can cost you your SO and their destiny.

They actually still make mega-wheats, which are quite fun. It’s old-school cereal. Throw some frozen berries on it, and it tastes about the same as contemporary stuff.

They are cool bikes, but I don’t know if they are perfect for people around my height. One of my friends demoed one and we shrieked with laughter as his foot was hitting the front wheel and the folding rack on the back with every pedal stroke while turning. He’s got bigger feet, but average height.

That, along with the eye-watering pricetag, made it a bit of a tough sell to us as rabid bike fans. Still, the idea is good, and we were impressed at how small it folded up. It could use some slightly bigger sizes for people six feet and up. :)

This is really sweet :)

That’s super cool :)

This is so awesome. Shaving an hour off your commute is insane. A 51% decrease in traffic on a tunnel is bananas. And 300,000 more people on the train is massive.

Silksong winning GOTY and BGYSA is great. Seeing Peak up there was nice too. I was a little surprised to see BG3- great game, but I thought it was EOLed in 2024 after native steam deck support.

I like movie theaters, but most of the movies coming out aren’t very interesting. I don’t like superhero movies or COD/John Wick-y movies where the plot consists of people getting punched in the face and going on car chases for 15 minutes.

I miss movies like Interstellar. Weapons was the last movie I saw and really liked in theaters.

You should have seen my face the first time I learned he was actually married.

There really is someone for everyone, as impossible as that sounds.